i missed sunny singapore
first of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to both jack and xp! happy 26 to you two! best wishes in the coming year to two of my best fellow arians... we really need to meet up to celebrate all our birthdays, yay! and xp, you're right, we're on the wrong side of twenties now, gosh, how time flies.
anyway, i'm finally back... on monday evening actually. no jet-lag but very very very exhausted, mentally and physically. just pictures for now, the horrible part of the trip is obviously not being reflected below.
edited to add:
[1] my bed for seven nights.
[2] it was a simple room with a study table and shelves. i was trying to get hooked onto the internet, but sad to say, there was no active wireless network around. we were seriously internet-starved over there.
[3] our tv area, though there's hardly anything nice to watch, i think only 4-5 swedish channels, and an occasional english cartoon during dinner.
[4-5] the view outside, frost on the ground in the mornings.
[6] our cosy dining area, just nice for the six of us. the connecting kitchen was well-equipped with the necessary pots/pans/cultery, and i was pleasantly surprised by my team mates' culinary skills.
[7] our volvo v70! one of the most common cars you see around. we had a free upgrade from v50, shiok!
[8] the view from the car - the GPS was our life-saviour, from workshop to office, office to supermarket, basically everywhere we go.
[9] how i look the first morning i woke up. suffered from mild jet-lag, woke up at 4am to eat breakfast then took a walk around to the lake nearby.
[10] the two chefs wrapping wanton! even in this part of sweden, there is a small asian mart, and you should have seen his faces when he saw the wanton skin. crazy fellow.
[11] we made two plates of these.
[12] this was all the snow/frost we got. it started snowing that morning, and guess who woke me up to see falling snow at 530am.
[13] this dish is called bull's eye. you can't see it in the picture, but it was a piece of toast, with beef steak and topped with a runny sunny-side-up. this restaurant was probably the most decent one you can find, and they serve pretty good red wine.
[14] one of our home-cooked dinners - asparagus with pork slices, luncheon meat with baked beans and potato, fish fingers - eaten with porridge, teochew-styled.
[15] check out the size of my pizza! it costed 70 kronas (approximatley S$15).
[16-17] we took a short drive to orebro city one of the evenings. that's the orebro castle.
[18] we had a sudden craving for ice-cream (yes, even when the temperature was between 0-5 degrees). zoomed off to the supermarket after dinner, the wall's toblerone chocolate was really good, and sadly you can't find such flavours in singapore.
i'm so glad to be home.
scribbled at 12:58 am
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first of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to both jack and xp! happy 26 to you two! best wishes in the coming year to two of my best fellow arians... we really need to meet up to celebrate all our birthdays, yay! and xp, you're right, we're on the wrong side of twenties now, gosh, how time flies.
anyway, i'm finally back... on monday evening actually. no jet-lag but very very very exhausted, mentally and physically. just pictures for now, the horrible part of the trip is obviously not being reflected below.
edited to add:
[1] my bed for seven nights.
[2] it was a simple room with a study table and shelves. i was trying to get hooked onto the internet, but sad to say, there was no active wireless network around. we were seriously internet-starved over there.
[3] our tv area, though there's hardly anything nice to watch, i think only 4-5 swedish channels, and an occasional english cartoon during dinner.
[4-5] the view outside, frost on the ground in the mornings.
[6] our cosy dining area, just nice for the six of us. the connecting kitchen was well-equipped with the necessary pots/pans/cultery, and i was pleasantly surprised by my team mates' culinary skills.
[7] our volvo v70! one of the most common cars you see around. we had a free upgrade from v50, shiok!
[8] the view from the car - the GPS was our life-saviour, from workshop to office, office to supermarket, basically everywhere we go.
[9] how i look the first morning i woke up. suffered from mild jet-lag, woke up at 4am to eat breakfast then took a walk around to the lake nearby.
[10] the two chefs wrapping wanton! even in this part of sweden, there is a small asian mart, and you should have seen his faces when he saw the wanton skin. crazy fellow.
[11] we made two plates of these.
[12] this was all the snow/frost we got. it started snowing that morning, and guess who woke me up to see falling snow at 530am.
[13] this dish is called bull's eye. you can't see it in the picture, but it was a piece of toast, with beef steak and topped with a runny sunny-side-up. this restaurant was probably the most decent one you can find, and they serve pretty good red wine.
[14] one of our home-cooked dinners - asparagus with pork slices, luncheon meat with baked beans and potato, fish fingers - eaten with porridge, teochew-styled.
[15] check out the size of my pizza! it costed 70 kronas (approximatley S$15).
[16-17] we took a short drive to orebro city one of the evenings. that's the orebro castle.
[18] we had a sudden craving for ice-cream (yes, even when the temperature was between 0-5 degrees). zoomed off to the supermarket after dinner, the wall's toblerone chocolate was really good, and sadly you can't find such flavours in singapore.
i'm so glad to be home.